2023-09-02 03:59:12
North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea today, as reported by the South Korean Army, two days after Seoul and Washington concluded extensive joint exercises. The launch took place around 4:00 a.m. this Saturday local time (7:00 p.m. GMT on Friday), according to the South Korean Joint Military Command (JCS), which did not provide further details of the latest weapons test. from Pyongyang. “We will maintain our monitoring and vigilance while continuing our fully prepared posture in collaboration with the United States,” the JCS said in a statement.
South Korea and the United States concluded their joint Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercises last Thursday, which the North considers a rehearsal for an invasion of its territory and which, according to threats by the Kim Jong-un regime, could end up bringing about a “thermonuclear war”. In response to them, North Korea announced on Thursday the holding of a military command post exercise that was supervised by the leader and that included the simulation of the seizure of South Korean territory.
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A day earlier, Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the Sea of Japan, hours after Washington mobilized a B-1 strategic bomber to take part in UFS.
Behind the failure of the dialogue on denuclearization between Washington and Pyongyang in 2019, the peninsula has once again become the scene of persistent military escalation, with the Kim Jong-un regime repeatedly testing missiles and the allies conducting major war exercises and regularly deploying strategic Pentagon assets. Also, Pyongyang announced last March that it had fired strategic cruise missiles equipped with a warhead that simulated a nuclear charge. The ‘Hwasal-1’ and ‘Hwasal-2’ type missiles hit the targets set in the Sea of Japan (called the East Sea in the two Koreas), according to the regime.
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